I like agile development, it works, but it does need some pretty clear guide lines and rules. It also needs very good testing systems to ensure no developer breaks anyones elses code.
Up until now, I have been using the same tools as everyone else.
SVN, perforce, CVS, etc… we all know this type of source control [...]
I already have cygwin installed, with GIT.
I have just been trying the mingw32 based version of GIT.
Mostly because I wanted to see the QT based QGIT, which will work directly with the mingw32 version of GIT.
What I want to point out, is that these two versions seem slightly incompatible…
A full commit from cygwin, comes up [...]
I am still experimenting with this… but…
You can get GIT running by simply downloading and running the cgywin installer.
Run the installer in standard configuration, and obviously include GIT… but also make sure to include VIM, as this is required to edit the comments. (PERL is required, but should be in the default installed packages. Make [...]
I suppose the first thing you should do is watch the videos.
Here is Linus Torvalds explains GIT philosophy to googleTech:
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And Randal Schwartz with more details about using GIT
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You should now know enough to realise why GIT….
If you are still in egypt… de nile… then here are some thinking points.
these are coming as soon [...]
I have been teaching people to read faster for years. So a few years ago, I got round to pushing all the techniques into an application.
The main advantage of this is the instant results, no more learning curve... Give it a go, and tell me what you think.